Example sentences of "he was [verb] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also on a bigger scale and , for the first time , he was to collaborate with a distinguished painter for the designs . |
| 2 | He was compensated with a pension secured for him by the new lord treasurer , Sir Thomas Osborne ( later Earl of Danby , q.v . ) . |
| 3 | However , Rudd appears to have gained the patronage of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , and he was compensated with a royal chaplaincy and prebends in the cathedrals of Durham ( 1550 ) and Winchester ( 1551 ) . |
| 4 | He was sitting with Mick at the top of a hill and he was wishing with a deep desire that he could remain in time , this present time , forever . |
| 5 | He was toying with the idea of bifocal spectacles on the eve of his appointment as Ambassador to France , and the future held a key role for him in the drafting of the American Constitution . |
| 6 | The Jungian concept of synchronicity was much on his mind because he was toying with the idea of using it to underpin the narrative structure of London . |
| 7 | He was retired with the rank of captain in 1855 . |
| 8 | We know very little of these early years , beyond that it was a family of privilege , untouched by the economic scourge that surrounded it , though Nathan Cohen must frequently have feared it might touch them , too — not least when he was blessed with a much hoped-for son , whom he named Leonard Norman . |
| 9 | Balder was a son of the most senior god , Odin , and one version of the legend says he was blessed with the gift of immunity from harm . |
| 10 | Love notes written by the accused to Miss Whitehead were also found which showed how he was consumed with a jealous sexual obsession after she had refused to sleep with him , the court heard . |
| 11 | Now he was fiddling with a heap of human jawbones . |
| 12 | He 'd knocked the pictures crooked and now he was fiddling with the things on Philip 's desk , his pens and Sellotape . |
| 13 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 14 | On the racecourse , in Portman Square , he was treated with the wary politeness reserved for outsiders . |
| 15 | During his stay in Istanbul he was treated with the greatest respect by his former students , among whom are mentioned three important muderrises of the city , two from the Sahn and one from the Murad Pasa medrese . |
| 16 | He made good progress until February 1992 when he was readmitted with a febrile illness and a tender mass in the right side of his neck , which was thought to be infective , but had not resolved despite treatment with flucloxacillin . |
| 17 | A post-election attack on an opposition motorcade protesting against election fraud by paramilitaries and Panama Defence Forces ( PDF ) troops put Mr Endara in hospital , after he was clubbed with an iron bar . |
| 18 | At the same time , he was entering with a new singleness of purpose the creative landscape of his own mind , and sensed already that what he might achieve in the months ahead would surpass anything which had resulted from two very public years in Bristol . |
| 19 | Roberts started work as an assistant to ( Sir ) Ralph Freeman [ q.v. ] of Sir Douglas Fox & Partners on the design of the Sydney harbour bridge for Dorman Long & Company , and when they were awarded the contract in 1924 he was transferred with the rest of the design team to their office in London . |
| 20 | It looked as if he was copulating with the ice . |
| 21 | Walsh was assured that the people concerned were not French — though they were as bad — and he quickly concluded that he was dealing with no more than ‘ a mischiefuous gang of disaffected Englishmen ’ . |
| 22 | The doctor , who evidently , and not unreasonably , on the basis of conversations with Franca , thought he was dealing with a madman , said to Marcus , ‘ I think we should all go now and have a nice conversation downstairs . |
| 23 | Like Kubrick before him , he was dealing with a man who wanted to be both the star and the producer . |
| 24 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
| 25 | He was certain that he was dealing with a facet of the supernatural now ! |
| 26 | Such an assumption is perhaps made most explicit in the Beckford Report when it comments on the apparent failure of the area officer in the case to recognize the apparently obvious indications that he was dealing with a ‘ high risk ’ child abuse case when chairing the initial case conference : Clearly it is of concern if health and welfare professionals are unfamiliar with the relevant research and it is one of the aims of this chapter to contribute to that understanding . |
| 27 | And there is some indication that Baldwin , from this time forward , felt that he was dealing with a time-expired Prime Minister . |
| 28 | This is a convoluted way of achieving a just result , and the law should be that the defendant should be proved to have realised that he was dealing with a policeman , or was reckless about the matter . |
| 29 | He was dealing with a congenital liar , but was he dealing with a murderer ? |
| 30 | All that is except this one when it could be said he was dealing with a special case — of cutlery . |